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Is It Racist to Call Maxine Waters Stupid, Considering How Stupid She Is?

Is It Racist to Call Maxine Waters Stupid, Considering How Stupid She Is?

In case you've just awoken from a years-long coma, Donald Trump is now the president. Yeah, I know! But it's true. And even though he now sits in the Oval Office, he still has a habit of crudely insulting pretty much anybody who criticizes him.* It's one of the things his voters seem to like about him -- "He fights!" -- and it's taken him all the way to the White House. Why would he change things up now? It's just what he does. It's Trump being Trump.

You'd think our moral, ethical, and intellectual betters in the press would be used to it by now, but they're not. It drives them crazy, which is another thing Trump voters like. The press can't get him to stop throwing out putdowns, because every time he says something to piss them off, his ratings jump 10 points. None of the old rules apply to him, and none of the old tactics stop him.

Not even the Democrats' absolute favorite tactic of all, their last resort and also their first: the flat-out accusation of racism.

Now, just because Trump slams all of his critics, no matter what color they are, that doesn't mean the Democrats are going to let him get away with treating a black person the same way he treats everybody else. Look no further than America's second-favorite Jon Favreau, the one who wrote speeches for Obama and now has a podcast and didn't direct Iron Man:

The President went to Pennsylvania, singled out a black Congresswoman from California, and called her stupid.

Did you get that? Insulting Maxine Waters' intelligence is racist because she's black. You need to give her preferential treatment, no matter what she says and does, or else you're a bigot. Equal ain't nothin' but a sugar substitute.

And Favreau must be right, or he wouldn't have gotten all those likes and retweets!

This is all very strange, considering how scornful Favreau can be about black people who don't share his political opinions. Check out these doozies from the 2016 campaign: